God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.
HENRI NOUWENListening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.
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Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.
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You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer – listening to the voice of the one who calls you “the beloved.”
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For Jesus, there are no countries to be conquered, no ideologies to be imposed, no people to be dominated. There are only children, women and men to be loved.
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We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.
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Hope means to keep living amid desperation and to keep humming in the darkness.
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Be surprised by joy, be surprised by the little flower that shows its beauty in the midst of a barren desert, and be surprised by the immense healing power that keeps bursting forth like springs of fresh water from the depth of our pain.
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I am the prodigal son every time I search for unconditional love where it cannot be found.
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The only feelings that do not heal are the ones you hide.
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Your heart is greater than your wounds.
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When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
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You don’t think your way into a new kind of living. You live your way into a new kind of thinking.
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The church is not an institution forcing us to follow rules but a community inviting us to still our hunger and thirst at its table.
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If you feel loved, you can do a thousand things. If you feel rejected, everything becomes a problem.
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This brief lifetime is my opportunity to receive love, deepen love, grow in love, and give love.
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Much violence is based on the illusion that life is a property to be defended and not to be shared.
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